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Numbers 4:31

in Numbers 4

This is the duty for all their service at the Tent of Meeting: to carry the frames of the tabernacle with its crossbars, posts, and bases,

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tent of meeting: the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof,

KJV

And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation; the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and sockets thereof,

This verse in Numbers 4

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
And this is the charge of their burden,.... What should be committed to their care and charge, and they should bear and carry: according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation; which was assigned to them as their part, and which was very heavy and cumbersome, and therefore they had wagons allowed them, Num 7:8, the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and sockets thereof; all these belonged to the holy and to the most holy place; see Exo 26:15.

This site's exposition

As for the sons of Merari

on Numbers 4:29-33

Merari carries the frame, the boards, the bars, the pillars, the sockets, the pins and the cords. Verse 32 orders that the instruments of their charge be reckoned by name, so every pin and every cord was inventoried and answered for, and Jamieson, Fausset and Brown draw from it that God disregards nothing belonging to his service. This is the heaviest load in the chapter, since the sockets of the sanctuary alone weighed a hundred talents of silver at Exodus 38:27, and Numbers 7:8 gave Merari four wagons where Gershon had two and Kohath had none.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

The least of the tribes had almost four times as many able men as the Levites, and some of them more than eight times as many; for those that are engaged in the service of this world, and war after the flesh, are many more than those that are devoted to the service of God, and fight the good fight of faith.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

It was a useful lesson, showing that God disregards nothing pertaining to His service, and that even in the least and most trivial matters, He requires the duty of faithful obedience.

The words behind it

12 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְזֹאת֙and this

    vezotH2063603 times

  • מִשְׁמֶ֣רֶת[is] [the] duty of

    mishmeretH493178 times

  • מַשָּׂאָ֔םcarrying their

    masaamH485366 times

  • לְכָל־for all

    lekholH36055413 times

  • עֲבֹדָתָ֖םservice their

    ʾavodatamH5656145 times

  • בְּאֹ֣הֶלin [the] tent of

    beohelH168345 times

  • מוֹעֵ֑דmeeting

    moedH4150223 times

  • קַרְשֵׁי֙[the] frames of

    karsheiH7175

  • הַמִּשְׁכָּ֔ןthe tabernacle

    hamishkanH4908139 times

  • וּבְרִיחָ֖יוand bars its

    uverichavH1280

  • וְעַמּוּדָ֥יוand pillars its

    veamudavH5982111 times

  • וַאֲדָנָֽיו׃and bases its

    vaadanavH13457 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Exodus 26:15

    You are to construct upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 36:20–33

      Next, he constructed upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle.

    • Numbers 4:31–32

      This is the duty for all their service at the Tent of Meeting: to carry the frames of the tabernacle with its crossbars, posts, and bases,

    • Exodus 26:18

      Construct twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle,

    • Exodus 25:5

      ram skins dyed red and fine leather; acacia wood;

    • Exodus 26:22–29

      Make six frames for the rear of the tabernacle, the west side,

Where this verse is studied

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About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.